I don't know about smell, but since smell & taste are tied together, I guess if they can taste, they can smell as well? I know LO has a can taste b/c she definitely likes some foods more than others and even something like yogurt which has the same consistency in all of the different flavors, she immediately recognizes the banana flavor in the 1st bite & will not open her mouth for a second for the 2nd bite. (what baby hates bananas?!?)
Though if I didn't know better I would wonder about LO's sense of smell just b/c she can have the stinkiest poop diaper ever and I am trying not to puke while changing her, she is unfazed by the smell!
Other than just reading about how babies can smell I didn't really start to notice it until recently.
I notice that J is perceptive to the smell of food. If he is outside playing and then he comes in and can smell the food I'm cooking he runs to the kitchen yelling MAC (snack). That is the only time I can think of when he's going off the sense of smell rather than a learned behavior (most of the time he comes in I'm not cooking so if he notices from the back door it has to be by smell, or if we go out to a good smelling restaurant he knows we will have food so I can't be certain he's reacting to smell alone).
I haven't noticed him reacting negatively to a bad smell like his poop or the outside garbage can. A lot of his reactions are learned - he will smell flowers and go Mmmm but I don't think he gets it because he does the same thing regardless of if it's a rose or a tulip.
Though if I didn't know better I would wonder about LO's sense of smell just b/c she can have the stinkiest poop diaper ever and I am trying not to puke while changing her, she is unfazed by the smell!
This exactly! I can smell LO's poop from across the room and he's not bothered one bit.
LO picked up a lemon today and held it up to his nose and sniffed it. It was not anything that we've done ourselves before (noticeably smell/sniff something), esp since I'm so m/s these days, so I knew he was doing it on his own because he could smell the lemony fragrance. And he loved it too...so he wouldn't let go of his lemon and walked around sniffing at it over and over again, looking really happy.
Thanks ladies =P it was just the only thing that came to mind about LO's sense of smell. Haha, I bet B would go crazy if a little girl wore that perfume!
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Re: sense of smell
I don't know about smell, but since smell & taste are tied together, I guess if they can taste, they can smell as well? I know LO has a can taste b/c she definitely likes some foods more than others and even something like yogurt which has the same consistency in all of the different flavors, she immediately recognizes the banana flavor in the 1st bite & will not open her mouth for a second for the 2nd bite. (what baby hates bananas?!?)
Though if I didn't know better I would wonder about LO's sense of smell just b/c she can have the stinkiest poop diaper ever and I am trying not to puke while changing her, she is unfazed by the smell!
Other than just reading about how babies can smell I didn't really start to notice it until recently.
I notice that J is perceptive to the smell of food. If he is outside playing and then he comes in and can smell the food I'm cooking he runs to the kitchen yelling MAC (snack). That is the only time I can think of when he's going off the sense of smell rather than a learned behavior (most of the time he comes in I'm not cooking so if he notices from the back door it has to be by smell, or if we go out to a good smelling restaurant he knows we will have food so I can't be certain he's reacting to smell alone).
I haven't noticed him reacting negatively to a bad smell like his poop or the outside garbage can. A lot of his reactions are learned - he will smell flowers and go Mmmm but I don't think he gets it because he does the same thing regardless of if it's a rose or a tulip.
This exactly! I can smell LO's poop from across the room and he's not bothered one bit.
the thought of b walking around sniffing a lemon made me smile - cute!!
that is too cute!
inamra - that is too cute!!
it totally made me flash back to being 8 years old and having love's lemon perfume: